How rare is the last name Cheney?

13,085 people in the United States have the last name Cheney, about 1 in 22,843. It ranks #2,689 of 156,621 last names in the 2020 Census.

last name

CHENEY

#2,689

of 156,621 last names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
13,085
About
1 in 22,843
This common or more
51.3%
Who bears it

Of the 13,085 people with the last name Cheney, 87.4% reported their origin as White, 3.7% as two or more races and 3.5% as Hispanic or Latino. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Either side of Cheney

#2,687 Segovia · 13,087#2,688 Hitchcock · 13,086#2,690 Valles · 13,082#2,691 Padron · 13,079

Spelled almost the same

5 last names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Cheney, most common first.

#1,084 Chaney · 31,687#45,763 Cheaney · 503#54,291 Cheyney · 410#71,696 Chene · 293#91,884 Cheeney · 215

Also a first name

As a first name, Cheney ranks #20,881 of 53,615, with 491 people. As a baby name it peaked in 2001, with 31 births. See Cheney as a first name

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